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[Oct. 18th, 2011|03:24 pm]
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What's the most pointless mnemonic you've ever had to learn?
I think mine is HOMES, because seriously, what upper Midwestern kid can't remember the Great Lakes without a five-letter word? But then there's also PAY HERB Czechs, and that's pretty useless, because who needs to remember the Warsaw Pact countries these days? I also never liked that East Germany just got E and they couldn't come up with anything for C and so went with Czechs. |
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The least helpful mnemonic I ever learned was the one for the early Roman Emperors: A True Conservative Cannot Govern Wisely for They Do Not Hate Avarice Altogether. Because Nero ends up being one of the n's in "Cannot" and Trajan has to be the T in "Not", and it doesn't do a damned thing to help you with all those short-lived emperors in 68-69 AD who weren't named Galba.
Also, the damned thing doesn't even show up on a google search, and I strongly suspect that my Latin teacher made it up to torment us.
I really hate it when people screw up something that could easily be non-screwed up. Cannot as CanNoT, for example, is just ridiculous. You could easily write it as A Thoughtful Conservative Can Never Truly Govern Wisely, and get the initials in as useful. I mean, really. | |
